Lab Members
 
Teamwork Leads to Impactful Research
Principal Investigator
 
Lucy Kornblith, MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of General Surgery
Trauma and Surgical Critical Care
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
Director of Research, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
Elsbach-Richards Endowed Chair in Surgery I
Specialists
 
Alexander T. Fields, PhD
Associate Specialist
Program Manager
 
Brenda Nunez-Garcia
Program Manager
Laboratory Manager
Nasima Mayer
Lab Manager
Staff Research Associate
 
Karl Zoghbi
Staff Research Associate
Clinical Research Coordinators
 
Isabel Arango, BA, MBBS
Clinical Research Coordinator
 
Kim Bardillon
Clinical Research Coordinator
 
Michelle Conte
Clinical Research Coordinator
 
Miles Deane-Grundman
Clinical Research Coordinator
 
Kimberly Herrera Rodriguez
Clinical Research Coordinator
 
Suzanna Chak, BA
Clinical Research Coordinator
 
Celine (Yu) Chou, BS
Clinical Research Coordinator
Postdoctoral Fellow
 
Meg Shaverdian
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bioinformatician
Cedric Bainton
Bioinformatician
Yale Santos
Bioinformatician
Students/ Volunteers
Jake Corvera
Undergraduate Student Research Fellow
 
Sophia Cuschieri
Medical Student Research Fellow
 
Vasuda Dokiparthi
Undergraduate Student Research Fellow
 
Amelia Marvit
Undergraduate Student Research Fellow
Alumni
 
Mary Kathryn Abel, AB
M.D./MAS Candidate Class of 2022
 
Saigeetha Bhaskar
Graduate Student Research Fellow
 
Hillary Braun, MD, MAS
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Division of Transplant Surgery
 
Hillary Braun, MD, MAS
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Division of Transplant Surgery
 
Seif Elmankabadi, BS
Clinical Research Coordinator
 
Aubrey Fife
Undergraduate Student Research Fellow
 
Zane Hellmann
Medical Student at UCSF (Class of 2021)
Mihir Joshi, MD
Anesthesia Resident at Stanford University 
Previous Medical Student at UCSF (Class of 2023)
Dhruv Kothari, MD
Otolaryngology Resident at Cedars- Sinai Medical Center 
Previous Clinical Research Coordinator
 
Deanna Lee, BS
Clinical Research Coordinator
 
Zachary Matthay, MD
Graduate
General Surgery Residency Program, 2023
Somya Mishra, MD
Anesthesiology Resident at University of Utah
Previous Clinical Research Coordinator
Viet Nguyen
Current Medical Student 
Previous Clinical Research Coordinator
 
John J. Park
Clinical Research Coordinator
 
Maya Patel
Undergraduate Student Research Fellow
 
Brittany Robinson
General Surgery Resident, UCLA Health
Previous Medical Student at UCSF (Class of 2019)
 
Anamaria Robles, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Division of Trauma, Acute Care Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care
University of California, Davis
Previous UCSF Research Fellow 
 
Erin E. Ross
Clinical Research Coordinator
India Shelley
Medical Student at Thomas Jefferson University (Class of 2025)
Previous Clinical Research Coordinator
 
Nichole Starr, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Division of General Surgery at ZSFG
Maya Weidman
Previous Undergraduate Student Research Fellow
